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Dialectal alteration of worry, 19th c.

noun worrits

countable, dialectal, nonstandard, uncountable Worry; anxiety. "Where have you been, you young monkey?" said Mrs. Joe, stamping her foot. "Tell me directly what you’ve been doing to wear me away with fret and fright and worrit, or I’d have you out of that corner if you was fifty Pips, and he was five hundred Gargerys."
countable, dialectal, nonstandard, uncountable One who worries excessively or unnecessarily.

verb worrits · worriting · worrited · worrit

dialectal, nonstandard, transitive To cause (someone) to be anxious; to worry. “Yes; don't worrit your poor mother,” said Mrs. Sanders. “She's quite enough to worrit her, as it is, without you, Tommy,” said Mrs. Cluppins, with sympathising resignation.
dialectal, intransitive, nonstandard To be anxious; to worry. Well Sir, would you believe it, there’s that in Mr Pontifex’s face which is just like young Watkins; he looks that worrited and scrunched up at times, but it’s never for the same reason, […]

adjective more worrit · most worrit

dialectal, nonstandard Worried. An' every day Chinook Bill got more an' more worrit an' turrible reticent.

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@misc{worrit_2026,
  title = {worrit},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/worrit},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}